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Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU (Cyprus, SOC)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 22/01/2024
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 23/01/2023 to 21/01/2024
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 27/01/2020 to 22/01/2023
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 21/01/2019 to 26/01/2020
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 01/08/2017 to 20/01/2019
  • Member: Socialist Group from 23/01/2017 to 31/07/2017
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialist Group from 20/06/2016 to 22/01/2017

In the Assembly

  • since 20/06/2016 Substitute - Cyprus

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Member: Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities (since 12/04/2025)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 23/01/2024 to 27/01/2025)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 31/01/2020 to 11/04/2025)
  • Full Member SOC: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 27/01/2020)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 22/01/2019 to 28/01/2020)
  • Alternate SOC: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 16/03/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 23/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 20/06/2016)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 20/06/2016)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (since 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Youth and the Society of the Future (since 23/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (since 23/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 23/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (since 04/04/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 25/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 25/01/2022)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 25/01/2021 to 22/01/2023)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 30/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 27/05/2019 to 29/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 26/01/2017 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 26/01/2017 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 23/06/2016 to 21/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 23/06/2016 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Christiana EROTOKRITOU (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (since 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Christiana EROTOKRITOU (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 27/01/2020 to 28/01/2025)

Interventions

Last speeches

09/04/2025 | 19:51:02 Thank you. I wish to thank all the interventions. And what comes out from the interventions is that it is obvious that we need a stronger political will. Governments must treat judgments as opportunities to prove, to reform, and to progress. The second is that national parliaments need to play a more active role in overseeing implementation. Transparency, accountability, and civil society participation are crucial. The third is that we must strengthen the tools at the disposal of the Council... 09/04/2025 | 18:55:48 Thank you, Madam Chair. Friends, This is an important year. This year is the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Convention and the Court are monumental achievements in the history of our continent. Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have led to the release of political prisoners; protections of speech, assembly and association that are the bedrock of democratic life; the decriminalisation of homosexuality; the development of fairer trials; an... 02/10/2024 | 16:42:48 Thank you. Thank you, Mister President. As rightly stated by the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS, whilst we are all aware of the immunities accorded to us as members of the Assembly, this is the first time that such a matter comes before the Assembly. And importantly, we should welcome the fact that Mr Marcin ROMANOWSKI's immunity as a member of the Assembly was recognised and respected by the authorities. This was not obviously going to be the case when the... 27/06/2024 | 16:05:06 Mister President.  In 1974, Türkiye invaded Cyprus and with the exception of the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the USSR and Prague in 1968, Europe had not encountered such an invasion since the Second World War. Forty-eight years later, Europe has once again experienced a flagrant violation of international law in the form of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.  Fifty years have gone past since the Turkish invasion – half a century during which period we have seen helplessly the erasure of... 26/01/2024 | 10:45:28 Thank you, thank you my compatriot President. I would like to first start by congratulating Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ for his excellent report. This report raises awareness about the many forms of abuse perpetuated in public and private institutions against children in Europe for decades. It reaffirms the Council of Europe's member states' commitment to combat violence against children in Europe and the intent to open a debate on how to acknowledge the true dimension of the problem, and the need...

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